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WITHOUT attending any meetings, conference calls or trainings,

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WITHOUT committing to purchasing hundreds of dollars of product every month,

WITHOUT having to figure out how to get paid, or qualifying for pay,

WITHOUT spending hours and hours recruiting, and

WITHOUT spending hours and hours of training and encouraging others

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KiSS Identity™ is an internet based viral marketing company with a twist.

KiSS Identity™ is an internet based viral marketing company with a twist.

Using the communication power of the internet you can create an income stream

WITHOUT attending any meetings, conference calls or trainings,

WITHOUT having scientific knowledge of unknown products,

WITHOUT buying an expensive starter pack, or business builder system,

WITHOUT committing to purchasing hundreds of dollars of product every month,

WITHOUT having to figure out how to get paid, or qualifying for pay,

WITHOUT spending hours and hours recruiting, and

WITHOUT spending hours and hours of training and encouraging others

Why I joined KiSS Identity™ as soon as I found out...

1. It will be affordable... $10 for the first and every monthly order.

In our present economy, virtually everyone needs additional money. KiSS Identity™ will be an affordable option to generate income because it is based on a minimum $10.00 per month purchase requirement while building a substantial brand... together.

2. No games in the compensation plan...it is simple and rewarding

There will be no requirements beyond the $10.00 per month to qualify to be paid on all the people in your organization down to the total depth of the plan. : $1 first level... $0.50 levels 2-9. No limits on width and no width requirements to be paid on depth. The plan is simple and deep. Barriers to entry are thereby eliminated and barriers to retention are destroyed. (Want to see something fun? Do the math on an organization 3 wide on all 9 levels and see what your income could be!)

Additionally there are some very significant bonuses added when you build the brand bigger. See the brand builder bonus, where you earn monthly shares of an additional 10% pool.

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Over the years marketing people have had to exaggerate, falsify, embellish or just make up stories to sell their products. And even if the claims are true, you have to be able to understand and explain them. KiSS Identity™ will be marketing fun, everyday, consumable products with a zing or twist to enhance the emotional experience of using those products.

4. The marketing will be done with the latest technology. The goal: TO HAVE FUN!

The sales vehicle will be video links that you email to your contact list. The website will have simple, self-directed training and duplication videos. Viral Marketing on the internet will generate interest and fun. The recruiting, training and motivating of people will be done by the videos and the Website. Your success will be dependent on the level of effort you put forth sharing the available tools.

5. It pays to be involved.

The sooner you start the sooner you get rewarded. Earlier you get in the greater the reward for your efforts. You can build a business no matter when you get involved. BUT, the simple truth is, the earlier you get in the fewer existing distributors you run into. There will be fewer people that you contact that will have already joined or looked at your business opportunity.

6. The business philosophy.

We will be cooperating in the development of a KiSS Identity™ brand name. The business model, compensation plan and marketing strategy are all centered on management and distributors working together to use modern technology to accelerate word of mouth marketing at a faster rate of growth. The things that stop people from joining, make people quit or cause people to fail have been removed.

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China to ban violent online games

China has banned Web sites from advertising or linking to games that glamorize violence, another step in China's censorship campaign aimed at ensuring social stability ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist rule on Oct. 1.

A notice posted on the Culture Ministry Web site on Monday said games that promote drug use, obscenities, gambling, or crimes such as rape, vandalism and theft are "against public morality and the nation's fine cultural traditions."

"Such online games promote the glorification of mafia life ... and are a serious threat to the moral standards of society causing vulnerable young people to be adversely affected," the notice said. The ban on the Web sites starts immediately.

No details were given on how the law would be implemented, but the notice called for law enforcement bodies to ensure Web sites adhere to the new law.

China has the world's largest population of Internet users, more than 298 million, and the world's most extensive system of Web monitoring and censorship.

While the government claims the main targets of its Web censorship are pornography, online gambling, and other sites deemed harmful to society, critics say that often acts as cover for detecting and blocking sensitive political content that can be found on sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, which are all blocked in China. source>>>

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Crime and Political Crises in an Already Weak Honduras

As signs pointed toward a coup d'état in Honduras in late June, the mainstream media quickly shined a light on this all but forgotten Central American country. Weeks later, as we closely follow miniature power moves between ousted president Manuel Zelaya, his replacement Roberto Micheletti, the Organization of American States (OAS), and other minor actors, much more important issues have managed to escape the focus of the investigation.

Beneath the surface of the coup in Honduras, we find a country dangerously close to losing its grip on public security, and it doesn't matter who the president is now or will be tomorrow. Neither man is capable of rescuing Honduras without continued support from neighbors, such as Mexico and Colombia, and from the international community.

In the first five months of 2009, Honduran authorities seized over 6.5 metric tons of cocaine, yet many analysts agree that this amount is probably less than one-third to one-fourth the total amount passing through any given point at any given time.

With a more conservative, back-of-the-envelope estimate, the calculation tops five metric tons of cocaine flowing through Honduras every month, which may, in part, explain a spate of recent killings. Early in the second week of June, Honduran police reported 13 homicides in less than 24 hours. There is no indication that even one murderer has been brought to justice.

Intelligence reports out of Central America indicate that members of organized criminal groups operating in Honduras have opened an assassination school. Former military soldiers and policemen serve as training officers, and graduates would certainly have no trouble finding work in Central America, or Mexico, where assassinations are a daily reality of the drug trade.

Compounding the certainty of Honduras' newly flourishing role as a transit country in Central America's drug trade, the Honduran National Register of Persons disclosed in June that documentation trafficking is running rampant. Officials believe that personnel within the agency are responsible for falsifying birth certificates and national identity documents.

Relaxation on visa requirements for visitors from China, Russia, Cuba and the Dominican Republic - all serious players in global black markets - has likely catalyzed this business of documentation falsification.

Meanwhile, due to a lack of stable well-paying jobs, Hondurans continue to depend heavily on remittances sent from family members and friends working in the US. Yet remittances have seen a steady decline since last year, according to the Inter-American Development Bank, leaving many Hondurans without an important source of income.

By 30 March, the US had deported some 10,000 Hondurans in 2009, with a monthly average of 3,330.

Continued deportations from the US will further exacerbate political instability, as many deportees find themselves in a country they chose to leave, where there is no legitimate work and little incentive to start a new life. Temptation to pick up a job in the lucrative drug trade, or even to start taking classes at the assassination school, is strong.

We are certain to follow the fate of Zelaya and the Honduran government's status well into the next few weeks. But as we do so, it is important to look beneath the surface tension and beyond the street protests to understand the complete picture.

Honduras is no longer a Banana Republic. It is an independent democracy plagued by very serious public security problems. Zelaya's fate is important to cover, but it is just one of this country's many problems. source>>>

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Politics Sole Cause Of vicious Attacks on Sarah Palin

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin left office on Sunday, rather than continue to allow the business of her beloved state to be affected by vicious partisan attacks against her on the national stage.

Palin has become a lightning rod for those on the left, simply because of her ability to espouse the basic values in which so many Americans believe.

Her political enemies filed a variety of ethics complaints against Palin - and in every case, she was exonerated. Now, the ultra-partisans are taking a different tack. They claim she was wrong, while governor, to raise money for her legal defense against the ethics allegations.

Solely because of attacks based on partisan motives, Palin - far from a rich woman - was forced to pay substantial costs to defend herself. Money raised for her legal expenses was used for just that, not to enrich her.

We remember another national figure, former President Bill Clinton, who, while in office, raised money for legal expenses in the infamous Monica Lewinsky case. We do not recall liberals expressing outrage at him.

Palin's political enemies placed her in a Catch-22 situation: They filed groundless ethics complaints against her, forcing her to defend herself. Now, she is being criticized for doing just that.

We think most Americans will recognize the assaults for what they are - more of the vicious, unfair politics we recall being assured were about to change. source>>>

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Health care debate could affect 2010 races

When anesthesiologist Andy Harris appeared on a cable news show last month in his white doctor's coat to discuss the health care debate in Congress, his message was about more than the pros and cons of the legislation.

Harris, a Maryland state senator who is running for a U.S. House seat, was also making a subtle political statement: The health care debate shaping up in Congress is likely to have big implications for the 2010 election.

"Health care has been pushed to the forefront," said Harris, a Republican whose race against Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil is a tossup, according to the non-partisan Cook Political Report. "Almost regardless of what Congress does, it's going to be an issue for debate."

Fifteen months before the midterm congressional election, health care is appearing in candidate stump speeches and interviews -- particularly by Republican challengers, such as Harris, running in districts recently claimed by Democrats.

That dynamic helps explain why a $1 trillion-plus health care bill stalled last week in Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is negotiating with skeptics in her own party, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said his chamber would not meet an August deadline to vote.
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On Sunday, Pelosi told CNN's State of the Union that she remains confident a bill will pass the House. But Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said on CBS' Face the Nation that Democrats have "a long way to go" before reaching a deal.

A top Senate Democrat, meanwhile, acknowledged there isn't enough support within the party to pass health care. "There are not the votes for Democrats to do this just on our side of the aisle," Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said on ABC's This Week.

Obama has said he wants lawmakers to finish health care by the end of the year, in part because it could become mired in election-year politics. All 435 members of the House and 36 members of the Senate are up for election in 2010. "The election tends to shorten the life of the Congress," said Duke University political scientist David Rohde.

Democrats have added 24 seats in the House and nine in the Senate since last year. Kratovil, who beat Harris for the eastern Maryland congressional seat last year, is one of 52 fiscally conservative Democrats known as the Blue Dogs. The group, which has been holding up the bill, wants more savings to pay for it.

"I'm doing my best to look at neutral information," said Kratovil, who said he is concerned about the cost of the bill and that it doesn't do enough to encourage doctors to practice in rural areas.

"I'm not here to make decisions based on how I can guarantee getting back. I'm making the best decisions I can."

Yet candidates across the country are raising the issue and putting pressure on incumbents. Among the talking points: A government-run health benefits program will put private insurers out of business.

"Having the government involved in health care to that degree is really counterproductive," said Steve Chabot, a Republican running to reclaim the Ohio seat he lost to Democratic Rep. Steve Driehaus last year.

Driehaus responded with an argument Democrats are likely to use in races across the country: Complex legislation like health care requires votes that won't make everyone happy. "When the Republicans were in charge, they didn't do anything about health care reform," he said. "Now they want to suggest that all of these challenges facing us started on Jan. 20."

Former U.S. congressman Steve Pearce is a Republican who ran an unsuccessful Senate campaign last year and is now trying to reclaim his House seat. Pearce made health care part of his announcement speech this month, arguing that the House bill would raise taxes in a tough economy.

Pearce's Democratic opponent, Rep. Harry Teague, said he also has "serious concerns" about some provisions, including a proposed surtax on families earning more than $350,000 a year. That, spokeswoman Sara Schreiber said, "could have a disproportionate impact on small businesses."

Schreiber said Teague is focusing on an overhaul that makes "eliminating waste and cutting costs top priorities." source>>>

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The Politics of Attention Deficit Disorder

Six months of scrambling on all fronts-bank bailouts, economic stimulus, climate change-have brought the President lower approval ratings from a public suffering from crisis overload and left him needing a Hail Mary pass to score on his key issue.

"With skepticism about the president's health-care reform effort mounting on Capitol Hill-even within his own party," the Washington Post reports, "the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to dramatically increase public pressure on Congress: all Obama, all the time.

"Senior White House aides promise 'an aggressive public and private schedule' for Obama as he presses his case for reform, including a prime-time news conference on Wednesday, a trip to Cleveland, and heavy use of Internet video to broadcast his message beyond the reach of the traditional media."

This test of presidential clout, coming up on a complex issue against the background of other trillion-dollar commitments that have still to bear fruit, leaves him exposed not only to Republicans with their simple-minded message of tax phobia and deficit fear but increasing anxiety among 2010-vulnerable Democrats who now sense a potential lack of visible progress on all fronts by next fall to keep them in office.

In this kind of ADD political climate, health care legislation lends itself to demagogues' cover on all sides, with providers "promising" non-binding new efforts to cut costs as Republicans line up with Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus to "back" a future public option for health insurance with trigger mechanisms that will never be pulled off. source>>>

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this date in history

On this day in 1965, the NASA space probe Mariner IV sent back the first close-up photographs of Mars. Live on a Florida TV broadcast of July 15, 1974, newswoman Christine Chubbock announced: "And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood & guts, and in living color, you're going to see another first -- attempted suicide." She pulled out a revolver and shot herself in the head, dying 14 hours later at a hospital. source>>>

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Iran singer gets 5 yr. jail term for Koran disrespect

An Iranian singer and composer who has been likened to Bob Dylan has received a five-year jail sentence in absentia for disrespecting religious sanctities, according to Iranian television.

An Iranian Koran scholar filed a complaint against Mohsen Namjoo, who also plays a traditional Persian lute, for the way he had performed using verses from Islam's holy book, English-language Press TV said on its website late on Monday.

The scholar, who Press TV did not name, accused Namjoo of "an insulting, sneering performance of Koranic verses with musical instruments."

It quoted the singer's brother and lawyer as dismissing the accusation, saying he "did not mean any disrespect." Press TV said Namjoo, who apologized a few months ago for the incident, was abroad but did not say in which country.
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Iran's Fars News Agency quoted a judge on Monday as confirming that Namjoo was found guilty "subsequent to an investigation of the complaint against him" but he did not give details on the sentence.

In a report posted on its website last week, the semi-official IQNA news agency (Iran's Quran News Agency) named the plaintiff as Abbas Salimi and quoted him as saying Namjoo was accused of "derisive rendering of Koran verses and disrespect toward" the holy book.

IQNA said the sentence against Namjoo, who is in his early 30s, was handed down last month.

In a 2007 profile, New York Times said Namjoo's "playful but subtly cutting lyrics about growing up in an Islamic state" had made him "the most controversial, and certainly the most daring, figure in Persian music today."

It added, "Some call him a genius, a sort of Bob Dylan of Iran, and say his satirical music accurately reflects the frustrations and disillusionment of young Iranians." source>>>

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The Audacity of the Pope

Papal encyclicals are supposed to be written with one eye on two millenniums of Catholic teaching, and the other on eternity. But Americans, as a rule, have rather narrower horizons. As soon as the media have finished scanning a Vatican document for references to sex, the debate begins in earnest: Is it good for the left, or for the right? For Democrats, or for Republicans?
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This was true in the 1950s, when the young William F. Buckley Jr. famously feuded with liberals over how much respect he owed to papal pronouncements on economic matters.

It was true in the 1990s, when conservatives eagerly cited John Paul II's condemnations of abortion and euthanasia, while liberals countered by noting his criticisms of the death penalty.

And it's especially true today, when a document like "Caritas in Veritate" ("Charity in Truth"), the third encyclical of Benedict XVI's papacy -- whose release, last Tuesday, was slightly overshadowed by a celebrity funeral of some sort -- can be wrangled over endlessly within hours of showing up online.

These arguments never seem to go anywhere. When a pope criticizes legalized abortion, liberal Catholics nod and say that yes, they agree, it's a terrible tragedy ... but of course they can't impose their religious values on a secular society. When a pope endorses the redistribution of wealth, conservative Catholics stroke their chins and say that yes, they agree, society needs a safety net ... but of course they're duty-bound to oppose the tyranny of big government. And when the debate isn't going their way, left and right both fall back on flaccid rhetoric about how the papal message "transcends politics," and shouldn't be turned to any partisan purpose.

"Caritas in Veritate" has been no exception. It's a "social" encyclical, in the church's parlance, covering issues ranging from globalization and the environment to unions and the welfare state. Inevitably, liberal Catholics spent the past week touting its relevance to the Democratic Party's policy positions. (A representative blast e-mail: "Pope's Encyclical on Global Economy Supports the Principles of the Employee Free Choice Act.") Just as inevitably, conservative Catholics hastened to explain that the encyclical "is not a political document" -- to quote a statement co-authored by the House minority leader, John Boehner -- and shouldn't be read as "an endorsement of any political or economic agenda."

Boehner is half right. The pope is not a Democrat or a Republican, and his vision doesn't fit the normal categories of American politics.

But Benedict's encyclical is nothing if not political. "Caritas in Veritate" promotes a vision of economic solidarity rooted in moral conservatism. It links the dignity of labor to the sanctity of marriage. It praises the redistribution of wealth while emphasizing the importance of decentralized governance. It connects the despoiling of the environment to the mass destruction of human embryos.

This is not a message you're likely to hear in Barack Obama's next State of the Union, or in the Republican Party's response. It represents a kind of left-right fusionism with little traction in American politics.

But that's precisely what makes it so relevant and challenging -- for Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

We're passing through the worst economic dislocation of the past 80 years. Our politics are polarized; our institutions gridlocked. The governing party is mistrusted, the minority party despised.

Yet there's remarkably little radical thinking taking place. The Republican Party is retrenching, falling back on Reagan-era verities. His promises of post-partisan change notwithstanding, Barack Obama's agenda looks like the same old Democratic laundry list, rewritten in a sleeker, Internet-era font.

This doesn't mean that America needs a third party with "Caritas in Veritate" as its platform. The church is not a think tank, and there's room for wide disagreement about how to put its social teaching into practice.

But Catholics are obliged to take seriously the underlying provocation of the papal message -- namely, that our present political alignments are not the only ones imaginable, and that truth may not be served by perfect ideological conformity.

So should all people of good will. For liberals and conservatives alike, "Caritas in Veritate" is an invitation to think anew about their alliances and litmus tests.

Why should being pro-environment preclude being pro-life? Why can't Republicans worry about economic inequality, and Democrats consider devolving more power to localities and states? Does opposing the Iraq war mean that you have to endorse an anything-goes approach to bioethics? Does supporting free trade require supporting the death penalty?

These questions, and many others like them, are the kind that a healthy political system would allow voters and politicians to explore.

But for now, at least, you're more likely to find them being raised in Benedict XVI's Vatican than in Barack Obama's Washington. source>>>

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she's not leaving politics

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she's not only staying involved in national politics, but she plans to jump back into the national scrum when she leaves office at the end of the month.

The former Republican vice presidential nominee said she plans to write a book, campaign for political candidates from coast to coast -- even Democrats who share her views on limited government, national defense and energy independence -- and build a right-of-center coalition.

"I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation," she said during an interview published Sunday in The Washington Times.

Palin shocked critics and allies alike when she announced on July 3 that she would leave the governor's office while in the middle of her first term. The governor chose not to seek re-election and suggested it was unfair to hold onto the office as a lame duck. Instead, she will step down July 26 and pursue a national profile. She has not said whether she is building toward a presidential campaign for 2012.

Republican Women Federated of Simi Valley announced Palin was scheduled to speak to the group's private gala on Aug. 8 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. The event -- reporters will not be allowed to attend -- will take place in an airplane hangar that houses a retired presidential aircraft Air Force One and will stir more questions about he curious resignation.

Palin defended the decision because "pragmatically, Alaska would be better off" if her state weren't spending time on ethical complaints against her. She also said the plan to resign had been in the works for months.

Her 2008 running mate disputed suggestions the telegenic and plainspoken soon-to-be-former-official was a quitter.

"Oh, I don't think she quit," said Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 who plucked Palin out of near-obscurity and made her a household name. "I think she changed her priorities."

For now, though, Palin isn't detailing those priorities.

"I'm not ruling out anything. It is the way I have lived my life from the youngest age," she said in the Washington Times interview. "Let me peek out there and see if there's an open door somewhere. And if there's even a little crack of light, I'll hope to plow through it."

The self-described hockey mom plans to write a memoir but declined to discuss any potential deal for her to become a television commentator.

"I can't talk about any of those things while I'm still governor," she said.

Yet she's already reminding audiences of her bipartisan and family-oriented appeal.

"People are so tired of the partisan stuff even my own son is not a Republican," Palin said.

Like his father, 20-year-old Track Palin is registered as "nonpartisan" in Alaska, she said.

McCain said he believes Palin will play a major role in politics, telling NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that "she has the ability to ignite our party and to galvanize us and get us going again and give us a strong positive message."

That said, McCain declined to endorse a Palin for President campaign.

"We've got a lot of good, strong, young, attractive, articulate spokespersons for our party and our principles," McCain said, citing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. source>>>

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California IOUs Hit Ebay, Craiglist

California's state tax revenues continue to sink with rising unemployment and falling retail sales. Meanwhile, credit unions have stopped accepting the state's IOUs, but a market for the registered warrants with a 3.75% annualized interest rate the state is paying on them until October 2, has sprung up on Web marketplaces including Craigslist and EBay.

From Reuters:

As California continues to issue "IOUs", more controversy is brewing over their use.

On one side, IOU recipients are beginning to trade them like currency, forcing the California state treasurer's office to issue guidelines if they are sold through eBay (EBAY), Craigslist or other means.
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California's treasurer is telling recipients of the IOUs that if they sell them to third parties, they will be redeemed by the state treasurer's office only if accompanied by a notarized bill of sale signed by their listed payee.

"We are in the process of contacting officials of eBay and Craigslist to post a notice of the policy on their sites," the statement said.

Speculation is rising over whether California's tax-exempt IOUs... can be bought, sold and traded.

The [SEC] must first determine if the IOUs are securities to regulate them, said Ernesto Lanza, general counsel to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, adding that the board was not working directly with the commission on that decision.

"It looks like it has all the hallmarks of a security," Lanza told Reuters. "If they are securities, I think they're pretty clearly municipal securities."

At least one website aims to offer a platform for selling the registered warrants. Obed Dorceus, owner of ioumarket.com, said he sees a potential secondary market for the IOUs -- and potentially other government promises to pay.

Since when IOUs are condisered securities? California has to put its act together. State bonds moved a step closer to junk status yesterday because of the budget mess, and a group of the biggest U.S. banks ; BofA (BAC), Citigroup Inc. (C), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and J.P. Morgan (JPM), said they would stop accepting states''s IOUs on Friday. What next. source>>>

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